I've came across these guys in my reading this week. I know that Jung Koo Chang and Yoko Gushiken are highly regarded on this forum, but I have never seen reference to Chitalada (despite his win over JKC) or MWY.

What about these two Eastern little guys?

For anyone unfamiliar with either man, here is some good action from a Myung-woo Yuh victory:

I've came across these guys in my reading this week. I know that Jung Koo Chang and Yoko Gushiken are highly regarded on this forum, but I have never seen reference to Chitalada (despite his win over JKC) or MWY.

What about these two Eastern little guys?

For anyone unfamiliar with either man, here is some good action from a Myung-woo Yuh victory:

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Wow! That dude in the white is great. His left hook to the body is a thing of beauty. I'm a fan. That was awesome action too.

Just doing some research. 17 defenses of the WBA Light Flyweight title, and avenged his only career loss. Exceptional. He looks like a really good technician, the way he'd double up his left hooks, and kept going to the body. Fantastic!

Yuh was an excellent body puncher particularly. That left hook to the body being his best weapon. Combine that with excellent stamina and durability and you have a very formidable stylistic dilemma. I'd only rate Chang above him among Jr. Flyweights of the era. I think Zapata at his best would've bettered him though, as Yuh lacked the dynamism of Chang.

Yuh was an excellent body puncher particularly. That left hook to the body being his best weapon. Combine that with excellent stamina and durability and you have a very formidable stylistic dilemma. I'd only rate Chang above him among Jr. Flyweights of the era. I think Zapata at his best would've bettered him though, as Yuh lacked the dynamism of Chang.

Yuh looks so good on film though. He just zooms in on the opponents body and bangs it..relentlessly. Was his record as good as it sounds, or was he fighting subpar opposition due to lack of depth. I see that he rarely left South Korea, were some of his decisions disputable?

Yuh looks so good on film though. He just zooms in on the opponents body and bangs it..relentlessly. Was his record as good as it sounds, or was he fighting subpar opposition due to lack of depth. I see that he rarely left South Korea, were some of his decisions disputable?

His decisions weren't disputed much from my knowledge, but his opposition wasn't routinely top notch. A fight between he and Chang was talked up, but the general consensus among Koreans was that Chang was just a different level of fighter. Interestingly enough I think it would've been a hell of a fight, though I'd have favored Chang.

His decisions weren't disputed much from my knowledge, but his opposition wasn't routinely top notch. A fight between he and Chang was talked up, but the general consensus among Koreans was that Chang was just a different level of fighter. Interestingly enough I think it would've been a hell of a fight, though I'd have favored Chang.

He looks brilliant on film, that's for sure. I was impressed immediately.

What the hell. Just watching the full fight, and Yuh is beating the **** out of Tokushima in the 4th, almost doubling him over with a body shot. He eventually scores a knockdown, and then Tokushima's trainer comes running into the ring. The fight should have been stopped right there. Incidentally, this fight along with another I've watched of Yuh's, is going the exact same way. They have no answer to the body attack and educated pressure applied by Yuh, who...looks like he's there to be hit, but somehow doesn't get hit to often.

This is one of the few fights of Yuh that I have in my collection and Ive watched it quite a few times in the last few months. He looks the **** there but he was young and probably not quite as polished as he was later.

It was an awful beating...Son looked ready to go after 2 rounds and got a couple of standing 8 counts put on him.
After that it was just a gradual beatdown, especially to the body. Defensively he was very sound for a fighter with his style, using textbook blocking skills at mid range to deflect almost everything that came his way.

Yuh had that sort of power that couldnt put guys away but that just meant they received a sustained beating..Sometimes I reckon thats worse for a fighters health